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David Horowitz founder of FrontPage Magazine: Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid. Since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts and the advent of the Great Society in 1965, trillions of dollars in transfer payments have been made to African-Americans in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences (in contracts, job placements and educational admissions) – all under the rationale of redressing historic racial grievances. It is said that reparations are necessary to achieve a healing between African-Americans and other Americans. If trillion dollar restitutions and a wholesale rewriting of American law (in order to accommodate racial preferences) for African-Americans is not enough to achieve a “healing,” what will?

Musa al-Gharbi contributor to American Affairs: Put another way: it’s a scientific fact that conservatives tend to be happier and more well-adjusted than liberals, and ideological gaps in well-being have expanded since 2011. The implications and applications of these realities remain wide open to interpretation.

Elle Purnell contributor to The Federalist: Nothing says ‘we respect women’ like elbowing them out of their own awards to laud a man who makes a mockery of womanhood.

David Strom contributor to Hot Air: I was struck by a news report about a study that showed that taking birth control pills increased the risk of breast cancer by 20-30%–and how the scientists and reporters characterized that increased risk as “small.” It didn’t seem small to me. It seemed strikingly large.

Walt Heyer who reversed his gender transition: Children need love, real care, and good psychosocial counseling, not a change of identity.

Laurel Duggan is a reporter for Daily Caller: Among transgender respondents, 40% identified as “trans, nonbinary” and 22% identified as “trans, gender non-conforming; only 22% identified as transgender women and 12% identified as transgender men, according to the poll. Nonbinary people feel that they do not fit into the category of male or female, and gender non-conforming people feel that they do not fit into conventional gender norms. Few transgender respondents said they presented as the opposite sex all the time; three in 10 did, compared to 20% who presented as the opposite sex “most of the time,” 34% who did “some of the time” and 16% who “never” present as the opposite sex, the poll found.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Kasperowicz: Matt Gaetz: Dems will move on guns by declaring firearm violence a public health emergency

At a House Judiciary subcommittee meeting on the “ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment,” Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., argued that it’s time to declare a public health emergency to prevent gun violence. “In St. Louis and nationwide, gun violence is a public health emergency and commonsense regulations are a necessity,” she said. […] “And our fellow Americans know the impact of folks up here in Washington declaring everything and anything a public health emergency,” Gaetz added. “It means you’re more likely to be locked in your homes, deprived of your freedoms, less healthy, less safe, less secure and less able to live a truly American life.” “So know this: when the left talks about this as a public health emergency, get ready to see those enhanced authorities abused by the ATF,” he said.

Tucker: You can’t have guns, but faithful servants of the Democratic Party can!

Democrats are all-in for transgenders to own guns?

Watch the 13:57 minute monologue: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6323182109112

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

War Room: Joe Allen: AI Is Most ‘Powerful Brainwashing Tool’ Ever Created.

Watch the 11:02 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2efz8k-joe-allen-ai-is-most-powerful-brainwashing-tool-ever-created..html

War Room: Brandon Showalter Explains How ‘Transgenderism Is Transhumanism.’

Watch the 4:17 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2efv02-brandon-showalter-explains-how-transgenderism-is-transhumanism..html

War Room: Bannon Predicts Artificial Intelligence Will Cause Same Societal Chaos As Bioweapons & Nuclear War.

Watch the 2:22 minute video: https://rumble.com/v2eftfk-bannon-predicts-artificial-intelligence-will-cause-same-societal-chaos-as-b.html

JANUARY 6 POLITICAL PRISONERS

Kelly: Informants Everywhere

After nine weeks of testimony from multiple government witnesses, including FBI agents, the Justice Department finally concluded its case-in-chief in the Proud Boys’ seditious conspiracy trial on Monday. […] Similar to other so-called “militia” groups tied to January 6, no one brought weapons to the Capitol that day; no one was charged with assaulting police officers or lawmakers. A key piece of evidence that prosecutors claimed was a road map for the “attack” on the Capitol wasn’t produced by any Proud Boy but by a former intelligence asset who himself sent the plan to Tarrio through a third party. The document represented just one more instance of how a government agent helped shape the government’s narrative that the Proud Boys plotted in advance to carry out an “insurrection” on January 6. In fact, much like the FBI-engineered plan to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, court proceedings confirm that FBI assets might outnumber criminal defendants. At least 10 and possibly up to 15 FBI informants were embedded in the group months before and continuing after the events of January 6. Informants participated in numerous group chats, cozied up to leadership, and even accompanied the Proud Boys to Washington.

JUDICIARY

Morana: A Dangerous, Traumatizing Outcome Possible in Abortion Drug Case

As the nation awaits a ruling from a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, that could halt the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone, abortion advocates are wailing and gnashing their teeth about the end of chemical abortion, while pro-lifers are joyful, thinking of the thousands of babies that might be saved. Neither side is looking at this the right way. Weeks before the March 15 hearing before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, abortion providers, including the nation’s largest, Planned Parenthood, announced plans to adjust the chemical abortion procedure if the judge rules that the FDA improperly approved mifepristone in 2000. […] Chemical abortion, even with mifepristone, is a painful, bloody and traumatic procedure. Women who are part of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign have described it in gruesome terms. Here’s Patricia from North Carolina, who was told by a doctor that she might experience some bleeding: . . . […]

Something else no one is saying about misoprostol abortion is that the babies could be expelled from the womb alive.

2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

Sundance: REMINDER: The Core Battle Begins Within the Republican Party

Before the next article about the next entrant into the field of the GOP for 2024, a reminder is in order. This was originally written in November of last year in preparation for the 2024 GOP nomination battle that begins now. An inflection point is coming. In preparation for what we are about to witness, it is critical to understand that both the DNC and RNC are private corporations with no affiliation to government. It is a difficult shift in thinking to appropriately understand, but the party system in U.S. politics revolves around two clubs that feed from the same corporate trough and position for influence and affluence within a political dynamic they control. The priority for both clubs, Republican and Democrat, is NOT primarily ideological. In the modern era, the corporate priority first begins with a battle over who controls each corporation. As long as there is no challenge, the clubs operate without issue. However, when there is a battle for control of the corporation, a battle that will ultimately determine the financial outcome, the internal battle becomes the priority. 2024 is going to be the election season when we see this corporate battle explode inside in the Republican group. Decades of entrenched power are at stake, and there has been four years of counter positioning and backroom discussion leading up to this moment.

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Rosner, Nelson & Golding: DA Bragg won’t cooperate with House probe of Trump ‘hush money’ case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday refused to cooperate with a rapidly expanding probe by House Republicans into the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case he’s pursuing against former President Donald Trump. In a letter to three GOP committee chairmen, a top Bragg aide wrote that “the District Attorney is obliged by the federal and state constitutions to protect the independence of state law enforcement functions from federal interference.”

Shaw: Rep. Tiffany asks why Hunter Biden hasn’t been prosecuted for alleged gun crime at ATF hearing

At a hearing titled “ATF’s Assault on the Second Amendment: When is Enough Enough?,” Tiffany asked Rob Wilcox, Senior Director of Policy for Everytown for Gun Safety, about an incident related to a firearm purchase by President Biden’s son in 2018. “If a person lies on ATF Form 4473 and is a user of unlawful drugs, you can get between five and 10 years for that. Is that correct? Is that your understanding?,” he asked. Wilcox corrected Tiffany to say that the sentence was now up to 15 years. […] Tiffany’s question brought pushback from at least one Democrat who called a point of order, saying it was not “totally irrelevant” to the hearing. Tiffany laughed off the objection.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

RNC Research tweet: “Has ByteDance spied on American citizens?” TikTok CEO Shou Chew: “I don’t think that ‘spying’ is the right way to describe it”

Watch the 13 second clip: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1638947576849342465?cxt=HHwWgoC9ueeI274tAAAA

RNC Research tweet: For at least the third time today, TikTok CEO Shou Chew does not deny employees of TikTok’s parent company in China have access to Americans’ private user data

Watch the 28 second clip: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1638940978068303874?cxt=HHwWhMC92dqI2L4tAAAA

War Room: Peter Navarro Explains Why TikTok Must Be ‘Crushed.’

Watch the 4 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2efqh6-peter-navarro-explains-why-tiktok-must-be-crushed..html

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Greenfield: Iran Keeps Killing Americans

There are stories that the media covers and stories that the media covers up. This doesn’t always mean not reporting the story at all. Sometimes it’s just a matter of what things the media keeps talking about and what it quickly ushers off the stage.How many people do you think know that Iran keeps attacking American military personnel? This was from last year. […] These attacks have mostly gone unpunished. […] And it keeps happening. Americans keep dying. A U.S. contractor was killed an another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured when a self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said in a statement.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY

Revolver.news: Guess His IQ: Cognitively Impaired Four-Star General Gives Bizarre Answer When Asked About Coups in Africa…

Few occupations represent the dramatic state of American decline more than the generals who serve in our nation’s armed forces. We’ve gone from heroic, even legendary figures such as Patton and Doug Macarthur to sub-literate squealing gimps such as Gen Miley, whose brain struggles in his big, dumb, square head to understand the roots of “white rage.” A recent exchange between America First congressman Matt Gaetz and General Michael Langley represents a dramatic and embarrassing new low in the decline of our once great generals. General Langley is not just any general, he is one of the very few four star generals — the de facto highest available rank in the military, the number of whose active positions is statutorily capped at around 50. Congressman Gaetz asks Langley about the number of trained African fighters who went on to undertake coups in their respective countries; while this is a worthy and interesting topic, take a first pass at the following video simply to absorb the level of cognition on which this esteemed general seems to be operating

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Ditch: 6 Charts Show Crucial Facts About Spending, Taxes, Deficits Missing From Biden’s Budget

The Biden administration on Thursday released an outline for its fiscal year 2024 budget. As expected, it promotes the same swampy, big-government agenda as last year, which the country desperately needs to avoid. Beneath the administration’s spin, the ultimate message is that it thinks the federal government doesn’t have enough power and control over our families and businesses. These charts, based on updated information from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, show just how off-base Biden’s narrative is and why America needs exactly the opposite from its leaders.

Horowitz: Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks

And racist too. […] Over 22 years ago, David Horowitz wrote the following article here at FrontPage, “Ten Reasons why Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks – and Racist Too.” The Freedom Center placed hundreds of ads in college papers at the time and David followed up with a bestselling book, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery, Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too? [1] There Is No Single Group Clearly Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery. Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too? [2] There Is No One Group That Benefited Exclusively From Its Fruits. The claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only whites have benefited from slavery. If slave labor created wealth for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black Americans as well, including the descendants of slaves. The GNP of black America is so large that it makes the African-American community the 10th most prosperous “nation” in the world. American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of twenty to fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from which they were kidnapped. [3] . . .

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Hazard & Solomon: Effort to squash Biden family stories long predated Hunter laptop, newly released emails reveal

Records newly released by the National Archives show efforts to suppress negative stories about the Biden family’s business deals long predate the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, dating back to 2015 when an aide to then-Vice President Joe Biden boasted she got a reporter to “only use” negative information “if her editors hold a gun to her head.” The emails come from the Obama administration archives and were forced into the public through litigation by the America First Legal nonprofit public interest law firm. They chronicle efforts by Biden’s then-aides in the vice president’s office to suppress stories about Huter Biden’s relationship with the Ukraine energy compamy Burisma Holdings during a Biden trip to Ukraine in December 2015.

DEMOCRAT PARTY ENFORCERS: ANTIFA & BLM

Sprang: Antifa Activist Shoots, Critically Wounds Seattle Police Detective

A now-deceased transgender Antifa activist on Monday shot and critically wounded a police detective, Seattle police revealed this week. The activist, 29-year-old Nathan Stolsig, shot detective David Easterly in the torso after three deputies served Stolsig an eviction notice, the Post Millennial reported. Stolsig, who identified as a transgender woman by the name “Eucytus,” belonged to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that actively encouraged the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.

DEMOCRAT PARTY IS ERASING WOMEN & FEMINISTS ARE SILENT

Purnell: You’ve Probably Never Been ‘Woman Of The Year,’ But These 9 Men Have

After naming Richard/Rachel Levine, a man who parades around in ladyface, as one of its 2022 “Women of the Year,” USA Today is back to remind us that it doesn’t know — or doesn’t care — what a woman is. Earlier this week, the outlet released its list of 2023 honorees, and the name getting the most attention is that of Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke, a pink-haired man who dresses like a woman and has been in office for less than 12 weeks. Nothing says “we respect women” like elbowing them out of their own awards to laud a man who makes a mockery of womanhood. Finke isn’t the only man coopting the “woman of the year” pedestal. Here are eight other men who have displaced women at their own game.

THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

(Transgenders do indeed suffer from a mental disorder) Murray: Troubled man in a stewardess uniform advertised as the face of ‘inclusion’ policies for United Airlines kills himself

Political correctness and woke virtues are like neatly-laid pavers, creating a path that can only lead to tragedy and death; news broke today that a young man named Kyle, who was obviously suffering tremendously from debilitating mental illness, has killed himself. But Kyle’s heartbreaking story has some rather concerning and extenuating circumstances: Kyle had abandoned his birth name and instead, was living as Kayleigh Scott…he was “transgender.” More than that though, Kyle was a poster child for the “trans” movement and corporate “inclusion” policies like DIE. In 2020 United Airlines celebrated “Kayleigh” in a woke public relations campaign video: . . .[…] the truth is, Kyle was celebrated and supported as a “trans” person — so news of his suicide begs the question: why? Published yesterday at Natural News: . . . […] Kyle’s story is just another data point in a trend showing how evil and calamitous leftist policies and ideas really are. The mitigating factors surrounding his death are an inconvenient truth bound to be brushed under the “progressive” rug, and an unwanted “told ya so” moment for conservatives like me. [NOTE: In 2018 WHO announced the following: Being transgender is no longer classified as a mental illness by the World Health Organization – a key sign of progress for an often-marginalized community. WHO announced Monday that in its newly released edition of the International Classification of Diseases, gender incongruence will now be classified as a sexual health condition. In 2021 The American Psychological Association adopted a resolution that removed transgenderism as a mental illness. The APA resolution reads:Diversity in gender identity and expression is part of the human experience and transgender and gender nonbinary identities and expressions are healthy, incongruence between one’s sex and gender is neither pathological nor a mental health disorder.” ]

Read more/Watch the 1:37 minute video at American Thinker.

Strow: Is a 30% increased risk of cancer “small?”

If a doctor told you that it was possible to reduce your risk of cancer by 30% with a pill would you consider that negligible? What if a doctor told you that taking a pill would increase your cancer risk by 30%? Would you be bothered by that? My guess? You would probably want to take the former pill and avoid the latter because getting cancer would suck. So I was struck by a news report about a study that showed that taking birth control pills increased the risk of breast cancer by 20-30%–and how the scientists and reporters characterized that increased risk as “small.” […] About 42,000 women die from breast cancer every year, and about a quarter million women are diagnosed with the disease. That is a pretty significant number of women, and if you could cut that number by 20-30% I think most people would invest a bit of effort into doing so. […] Yet it is striking that the ideological commitment to the promotion of sexual “liberation” is so great that doctors and scientists, who will scream to high heaven about such dangerous increases in chances of death and disease, will downplay similar risks when it comes to birth control.

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Townsend: Disney defies DeSantis with plans for largest LGBTQ conference as “bloodbath” of lay-offs come

Is the House of Mouse in a full-on war with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis? If not, the organization is at the very least jabbing a finger in the governor’s eye. The Walt Disney Company will host a major summit to promote LGBTQ rights in the workplace. It will be held in Central Florida in September. Executives and professionals from the world’s largest companies will gather “in a defiant display of the limits of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign against diversity training.” […] Out & Equal is the organization behind the event with Disney. Disney has an established relationship with Out & Equal. They will also host the same summit next year – two years in a row at Disney World in Florida. Last year it was held in Las Vegas. […] Going woke for companies, like when Disney decided to get politically active, has consequences. Disney revenues dropped during the company’s kerfuffle with DeSantis. Families canceled memberships. Now there are reports of major layoffs coming, and the word “bloodbath” is being used. Yikes! Cuts are coming to all divisions, including the theme parks. Stock prices still have not risen much despite the streamlining coming.

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